the world. how do you think this will impact our foreign policy? i think it reinforces the fact that we are still fighting islamic fundamentalism. and in fact, even as the trump administration puts the final touches on dislodging isis from syria and iraq, but we are going to see is a dispersal of many of these g fighters coming back to where they came from. we are going to see i think more attacks of what we saw yesterday in spain and this is going to create the need for greater coalition with our allies across the world. heather: do you think this will mean we will have a tougher response? steve bannon was known to promote this but we also have general john kelly and we ve been talking about his strength
strikes in syria were quote a violation of law. tillerson says it is important never to repeat such strikes. i believe it was lavrov, but creme lkremlin kremlin. relations are worse now under president trump than before. what do you make of the conversations as we speak? i think it just under scores how unrealistic the expectations were on both sides of how much leeway a president trump has to reset american relations with russia given the difficult vver the subjects on their agendas. and that overestimated how important that was that dislodging isis was not as important to russia and reinforcing assad.
the syrian use of the chemical weapons by launching another separate strike against the hospital to remove evidence. have you been briefed on that? no, i ve not been briefed on that particular attack. but it makes sense to me that the russians are embarrassed by this. as everybody has been embarrassed by assad. his own some of his cabinet officials who have defected have said look, find another leader, but let s get rid of this guy because of what he s done to his own country and his own people and when his own tribe is saying that, it is really time for the russians to open a political discussion here of a negotiation on how to get this guy out of the process. have him go to russia. have him go wherever. but let s see a negotiated agreement here that will get rid of isis, which is in russia s interest and ours, because assad
russian officials and to ensure that the united states views on the situation in syria counter terrorism efforts, north korea and other matters are clearly conveyed. we re open to strategic cooperation with russia when we can achieve a shared goal such as defeating isis, but we ll stand up for our interest and values when we do not see eye to eye. russia must honor the commitments it made in the nuclear forces treaty and other topics of international concern. secretary tillerson is going to make that clear during his visit. i also want to make it known that secretary mattis and the commander of central command will be giving a full briefing on the strike in syria that occurred today in the department of defense at 3:30. then at 4:00 i ll be back up here for an off camera briefing with director mulvaney was office of management and budget and linda springer for regarding the president s executive order on reorganizing
who didn t want to get into another conflict in the middle east. who campaigned that iraq was a terrible decision and who criticized the spending that went into this. and now we re how many days in and we re talking about perhaps another aumf. not only that but the comparison to candidate trump, when he talked about the value of trying to have the principle asset he saw coming out of that was cooperation against isis and syria. you go back and look at the language in the first presidential debate. he said wouldn t it be great if we could work together with russia against isis and here we have the situation in syria, you know, really exploding the difficulty, making very clear the difficulty of any kind of cooperation because while there is a shared interest in dislodging isis in syria, it s clear that russia s principle interest again reaffirmed today is stabilizing assad in syria and you can see how big a space there is between what they want and what we want despite some overlap